Aston Martin Posted June 22, 2018 Share Posted June 22, 2018 Battery fucked? Whoops... missed you've fitted one! Any dodgy earths anywhere? 12 year old original battery and just about 100k. The battery is about as big as a 9v battery. I did offer her £50 for the car, which she declined... .... Also I did my bicentennial "Is my Parade still in my lockup? Check" He was, with no air in any tyres and the oil pool under the sump has gotten smaller. Either I'm past the oil porousy bit of the engine, or its all escaped. captain_70s, cpjitservices and Lord Sterling 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cpjitservices Posted June 22, 2018 Share Posted June 22, 2018 12 year old original battery and just about 100k. The battery is about as big as a 9v battery. I did offer her £50 for the car, which she declined... .... Also I did my bicentennial "Is my Parade still in my lockup? Check" He was, with no air in any tyres and the oil pool under the sump has gotten smaller. Either I'm past the oil porousy bit of the engine, or its all escaped.Youll have to show me sometime! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angrydicky Posted June 22, 2018 Share Posted June 22, 2018 We use FedEx all the time at work and to be honest 99% of parcels arrive ok. On Monday though, a customer called to ask where his parcel was that should have been delivered the Thursday before. No card left, nothing. The tracking information said 'Signed for by *unintelligable name* so I called the customer back and asked if he knew who it was. No, nothing. So then called the local delivery depot. They spoke to the driver who said he'd left it at "number 6 or number 8, can't remember which but I know which house, it's the one directly opposite") and we went back to the customer who confirmed there was no number 8 but there was a number 6 which was sort of opposite so he'd ask if they had it. Which they didn't.After chasing FedEx a couple more times they said they'd send the driver to pick it up and try to deliver it again.Shortly afterwards I had a call from a nice young lady to say she had our customer's parcel at her place of work, and had got our phone number from the invoice. Looking at google maps this business was a good 300 yards away from our customer on a main road (in a built up area) and our customer was in a news property behind the road.I called our customer and gave him the details of the company where the parcel was, then called FedEx and asked them to tell their driver not to bother.The customer later called and confirmed he'd collected his (large and heavy) parcel from where it had been left. Total time to get to him? A week for a next day service, all because the driver couldn't find the address and left it in an odd place.Bloody hopeless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Sterling Posted June 22, 2018 Share Posted June 22, 2018 ....Also I did my bicentennial "Is my Parade still in my lockup? Check" He was, with no air in any tyres and the oil pool under the sump has gotten smaller. Either I'm past the oil porousy bit of the engine, or its all escaped.Lol, reminds me of my 820E. I rarely ever bother to go to the garage. Usually if I'm up that way, I've always forgotten the keys. Last time I looked, sometime last year the air in the front tyres had disappeared. Since then I've bagged myself an air compressor I keep in my car so can pump it up again if I pass by in the future. Aston Martin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Hooli Posted June 22, 2018 Share Posted June 22, 2018 On a train to collect my acquisition. Air con is banjaxed, windows not giving much of a breeze. Slowly but surely melting into my seat. Still, only another hour to go.... Hope you're wearing your leathers for maximum discomfort. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Hooli Posted June 22, 2018 Share Posted June 22, 2018 Are you there yet? Nyphur 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pieman Posted June 22, 2018 Share Posted June 22, 2018 banjaxed This word needs to be used more often, I like it. Nyphur 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stanky Posted June 22, 2018 Share Posted June 22, 2018 Ride home in just your pants to even it out? mercrocker, djim, Cavcraft and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aston Martin Posted June 22, 2018 Share Posted June 22, 2018 Lol, reminds me of my 820E. I rarely ever bother to go to the garage. Usually if I'm up that way, I've always forgotten the keys. Last time I looked, sometime last year the air in the front tyres had disappeared. Since then I've bagged myself an air compressor I keep in my car so can pump it up again if I pass by in the future.It's at the other end of town, normally I don't open the garage. I just check that the enormous nettle hasn't moved from the middle of the door. But I had to store a bike in there, I once went and there were Vectra Recaro seats just dumped in the rain. Today there's was a burnt out motorbike. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dollywobbler Posted June 22, 2018 Share Posted June 22, 2018 I have a new desktop. It has an old-style keyboard that I apparently can't type on. It makes lots of noise. It runs Linux Ubuntu, which is like Windows, but many things don't work. This is going to take some getting used to, but should speed up video production. In theory... GrumpiusMaximus, The Moog and yes oui si 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stanky Posted June 22, 2018 Share Posted June 22, 2018 Ubuntu is GR8, it takes a bit of getting used to, but if something doesn't work just google the issue and there will be a copy and paste solution to fix it. Its a bit more manual than Windows but a lot less of a resource hog. I have a fork of Ubuntu running on my work computer and its absultely brilliant. If you need any help drop me a message and I'll assist. If you want a decent office suite get WPS office, Libre Office and Open Office are just dismal. Its free too. dollywobbler and GrumpiusMaximus 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beko1987 Posted June 22, 2018 Share Posted June 22, 2018 Ubuntu is very likeable! Head over to the room you don't like and find techy corner and tell us what it doesn't do that you want it to do... Keyboards are easily changed too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richardmorris Posted June 22, 2018 Share Posted June 22, 2018 Target acquired. Blimey.IMG_20180622_180408932.jpg That looks big. My mum, having seen far too many motorcycle accident victims from working in casualty, made me promise never to buy one. Good luck! Nyphur 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anonymous user Posted June 22, 2018 Share Posted June 22, 2018 My mother, an ex casualty nurse, was the same, so I waited until I left home before buying a motorcycle and never told her that I had one 11001010 and chaseracer 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richardmorris Posted June 22, 2018 Share Posted June 22, 2018 My mother, an ex casualty nurse, was the same, so I waited until I left home before buying a motorcycle and never told her that I had one I’ve never been a rebel! chaseracer and DeeJay 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yes oui si Posted June 22, 2018 Share Posted June 22, 2018 I have a new desktop. It has an old-style keyboard that I apparently can't type on. It makes lots of noise. It runs Linux Ubuntu, which is like Windows, but many things don't work. This is going to take some getting used to, but should speed up video production. In theory...This is the single greatest and most accurate description of Linux that I have ever read. cobblers 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dollywobbler Posted June 22, 2018 Share Posted June 22, 2018 In other grumps, Direct Ferries. I'm convinced this company is a borderline con. We used them for the Dacia trip, and all was fine. But, I'm off to The Netherlands at the end of the month. At the very least, I could do with changing the booking to reflect the car I'll actually be in, but I'd also like to bring forward the return date. Sadly, the Direct Ferries website will not let me do either of these things, but tells me to call the office. Only, they never answer the phone. Ever. I've seen people online complaining of waiting over an hour and not having calls answered! Customer services doesn't seem to be a thing. Pretty miffed. Now, do I pack for the trip I want to have, or the one I might end up having to have? Arseholes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave21478 Posted June 22, 2018 Share Posted June 22, 2018 every year or so I would flirt with Ubuntu or Mint or whatever version of Linux was flavour of the month, and it would all go swimmingly with just the odd thing out of place until I had to do something obscure that only needed done on rare occasions and it would all fall over....stuff like getting a scanner to work.And sure, there is help online, which says "open a thingy box and type this incomprehensible string of symbols...." and I then have to google how to open a thingy box...I need an idiots guide to Ubuntu thats been simplified even further for a stupider than normal idiot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave21478 Posted June 22, 2018 Share Posted June 22, 2018 FUCK. RIGHT. OFF. These rubbermothers are a hundred and thirty eurosheckels each FFS. Someone better phone the RSPCA and maybe the pope as kittens and nuns will die tomorrow because this is sure-as-shit getting a mushroom plug and to fuck with "too close to the edge". cobblers, Pillock, DeeJay and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beko1987 Posted June 22, 2018 Share Posted June 22, 2018 Just put a big blob of tigerseal around the head and screw it in a bit more... I like Linux, get on very well with Ubuntu and Mint and MX, but only ever use them as glorified netbooks, having several (too many now I think about it) windows machines to fall back on. And I have more in my watch list FFS. What's wrong with me? It's because it's usually cheaper to buy whole 'spares or repairs' machines than the parts I actually need, then make one really good one out of 2. Problem is the thinkpad job lots are very cheap... I should start doing youtube videos on them, they get lots of views, views mean money and I need money! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Sterling Posted June 22, 2018 Share Posted June 22, 2018 It's at the other end of town, normally I don't open the garage. I just check that the enormous nettle hasn't moved from the middle of the door. But I had to store a bike in there, I once went and there were Vectra Recaro seats just dumped in the rain. Today there's was a burnt out motorbike.At least yours is only across town, mine is about 25 miles away in another town. A town which I rarely visit despite having grown up there and having family there. It's actually quite a nice drive through country B-roads and the like, I guess I just don't have enough arsed anymore. Mind you, now the garage is full to brimming, I really do need to get down there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DodgeRover Posted June 23, 2018 Share Posted June 23, 2018 That looks big. My mum, having seen far too many motorcycle accident victims from working in casualty, made me promise never to buy one. Good luck!But how many more car accident victims did she see on an daily basis? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parky Posted June 23, 2018 Share Posted June 23, 2018 On the CBT tests they show some quite graphic pictures of bike accident injuries as an encouragement to wear proper protective kit. Needless to say I would never ride without proper kit regardless of weather! Pretty horrendous stuff, not “wow, that’s an amazing scar, what a road warrior badge of honour you have there” type stuff, more like “how can you function as a human being with all that flesh missing?” type photos. Most car accidents don’t involve sliding along an abrasive surface at 50mph plus, quite a few bike accidents do and the injuries produced are horrendously complicated long term repair jobs. Bones and muscles can be largely repaired with time and plaster, flesh takes an awful lot more to replace and never ever looks like a good repair. Be like Nyphur - overheated but protected! mercedade, Rusty_Rocket, SierraMikeHotel and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supernaut Posted June 23, 2018 Share Posted June 23, 2018 Road rash heals up alright, at least in my experience. I got a lovely bit of road rash on my left arm when I fell off my bicycle last July. I was keeping up with traffic downhill in a 30 zone, and was just wearing a t-shirt and jeans (the helmet didn't help in this situation). It stung a bit, but you can barely tell. It covered most of my left fore-arm too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave21478 Posted June 23, 2018 Share Posted June 23, 2018 Someone I know works at a moped rental place in a touristy area full of Club 18-30 oiks. For a lot of renters its their first time on a moped, so she gives the pitch about how to start it, how to refuel etc. Rental includes a helmet and she tells them about wearing protective clothing. While nobody expects folk to be riding mopeds in full leathers around a Mediterranean resort, covering up skin and wearing decent footwear is recommended. She says that as she goes through the explanation...every time...EVERY time, she can literally see the point where they stop paying attention to her when she starts about safety.At least once a week someone will find out the hard way that if you are going to lose it and go skidding down the road at 30mph then flipflops, booty shorts and a bikini top are not the ideal things to be wearing.Apparently having your tits cheese-gratered right off is a real hazard. Lacquer Peel 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parky Posted June 23, 2018 Share Posted June 23, 2018 The last line of that post actually turned my stomach. Glad they only showed pictures of legs and arms with bone showing through shredded flesh on the CBT. Either way you pays your money and takes your chances. Personally I would rather be sliding down a road with leathers and Kevlar on my extremities than a pair of shorts and a vest. Of course the oncoming truck will make a mockery of your existence regardless of what you are wearing. Biking - still fun though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3VOM Posted June 23, 2018 Share Posted June 23, 2018 FUCK. RIGHT. OFF. IMG_20180622_1337371.jpg These rubbermothers are a hundred and thirty eurosheckels each FFS. Someone better phone the RSPCA and maybe the pope as kittens and nuns will die tomorrow because this is sure-as-shit getting a mushroom plug and to fuck with "too close to the edge".At least you will be able to get it out easily.... I'll be joining people in the Unbuntu thread wherever it is. Running it to replace Vista on a machine that must be about 15 years old, which wouldn't likely cope with more recent versions of Windows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Exiled_Tat_Gatherer Posted June 23, 2018 Share Posted June 23, 2018 My ancient hp8000 just died a death this morning. W t even boot - disk sounds like it's had it. Ubuntu just sorted too...... annoying. Partitioned and second partition used for photos and the like. No worries thinks I - old stuff and backed up...... hmmmmmmmm the the fucking external drive that was stolen with my backpack last year from the work desk.......... Fuck it all!!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cavcraft Posted June 23, 2018 Share Posted June 23, 2018 The last line of that post actually turned my stomach. Glad they only showed pictures of legs and arms with bone showing through shredded flesh on the CBT. Either way you pays your money and takes your chances. Personally I would rather be sliding down a road with leathers and Kevlar on my extremities than a pair of shorts and a vest. Of course the oncoming truck will make a mockery of your existence regardless of what you are wearing. Biking - still fun though! Sit at my computer nodding in agreement with the 'dress for the slide, not the ride' mentality. Then the sun comes out, and it's shorts and t-shirt on and out for a ride. Supernaut 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Longbridge Posted June 23, 2018 Share Posted June 23, 2018 The last line of that post actually turned my stomach. Glad they only showed pictures of legs and arms with bone showing through shredded flesh on the CBT.Either way you pays your money and takes your chances. Personally I would rather be sliding down a road with leathers and Kevlar on my extremities than a pair of shorts and a vest. Of course the oncoming truck will make a mockery of your existence regardless of what you are wearing.Biking - still fun though!We’ve have a collective noun for Sunday riders who rag the shit out of their sports bikes whilst racing their friends on the queen’s highway. Donors. Parky, BorniteIdentity, myglaren and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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